[SOLVED] Help – Wicd stopped working suddenly

[Member Klaas Vaak]

I was surfing the web, when suddenly pages would not load anymore. Wicd cannot spot any networks anymore, pressing the Refresh button does not do anything. I am on antiX 17.2
Here are the hardware details:

 inxi -Fxz
System:
  Host: Yoga300 Kernel: 4.19.25-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc 
  v: 6.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 
  Distro: antiX-17.2_x64-full Helen Keller 4 October 2018 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 80M0 v: Lenovo YOGA 300-11IBY serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: LENOVO model: Mini v: SDK0J33995WIN serial: <filter> UEFI: LENOVO v: C0CN25WW 
  date: 04/21/2015 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 6.3 Wh condition: 26.3/30.0 Wh (88%) model: SMP L14M2P22 
  status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Celeron N2840 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Silvermont 
  rev: 8 L2 cache: 1024 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 8663 
  Speed: 500 MHz min/max: 500/2582 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 500 2: 500 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display 
  vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
  Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Bay Trail v: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series High Definition Audio 
  vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.25-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Lenovo 
  driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 1000 bus ID: 01:00.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 1000 bus ID: 02:00.0 
  IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 29.12 GiB used: 4.14 GiB (14.2%) 
  ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: BGND3R size: 29.12 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 7.81 GiB used: 4.14 GiB (53.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/mmcblk0p2 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/mmcblk0p3 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 28.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 169 Uptime: 1h 34m Memory: 1.83 GiB used: 225.4 MiB (12.0%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.29

• This topic was modified 4 years ago by Klaas Vaak.

[Moderator caprea]

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The first thing that comes to mind is you pressed accidentally a hotkey for wlan.
Does
sudo rfkill unblock all
help ?

Hmm, I saw your thread on mx-forum about the start on bootscreen being stopped.Maybe your keyboard has a life of its own and presses one or more keys.

[Member Klaas Vaak]

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caprea wrote:

The first thing that comes to mind is you pressed accidentally a hotkey for wlan.
Does
sudo rfkill unblock all
help ?

Caprea, you really are a star!! And that is not meant like a sycophantic remark, it is meant. Whenever you reply your advice is always useful. So yes, this worked. There is no wlan hotkey, but I (actually my wife, it’s her laptop) must have pressed a key that did this.

Hmm, I saw your thread on mx-forum about the start on bootscreen being stopped.Maybe your keyboard has a life of its own and presses one or more keys.

The bootscreen issue is not a major one, just an annoyance. If it is not solvable I/she will live with it.

Regarding the keyboard, I started a thread about it being blocked after a de-suspension, you advised me to update the kernel to 4.19 or 4.20. The latest listed was 4.19.something, which I installed 2 days ago. It is a bit early yet to make a definitive statement, but so far so good. In any case I have not experienced any untoward effects yet. I will follow that issue up in the other thread.

Anyway, thanks again for this simple, effective solution, you made my wife very happy. Thanks.

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by Klaas Vaak.
• This reply was modified 4 years ago by Klaas Vaak.

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Thanks for the kind words, blushing, just like to help, and I like antiX.

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